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WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter

The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
Issue XVIII — June 1, 2008

Project News

Backlash (2006), Insane Clown Posse, Judgment Day (2005), Judgment Day (2007), Royal Rumble (2005), and Survivor Series (2005) have been elevated to Good Article status.

SummerSlam (2007) (link) and SummerSlam (1988) (link) have been nominated for Featured Article status.

Backlash (2007), One Night Stand (2007), Paul London, Royal Rumble (2005), The Great American Bash (2007), The Rock (entertainer) and Unforgiven (2006) are currently Good article candidates.

Over the Edge (1999) failed it's Good article nomination, though, it has been reassessed here.

Current Events

Darren Matthews (William Regal) was suspended by WWE for 60 days for breaching the Substance Abuse and Drug Testing Policy.

The 2008 WWE Draft was announced by World Wrestling Entertainment chairman, Vince McMahon, to take place on June 23 2008.

At One Night Stand, Randy Orton suffered a broken collarbone during his Last man standing match with Triple H.

Also, at One Night Stand, Edge won the World Heavyweight Championship in a Tables, Ladders and Chairs match defeating The Undertaker. Per the pre-match stipulation, Undertaker was kayfabe forced to leave WWE.

The Month in Wrestling History

May 23, 1999 - Owen Hart died in a tragic fall during Over the Edge.
May 21, 2000 - Triple H defeated The Rock for the WWF Heavyweight title.
May 22, 2000 - Vince Russo stripped Ric Flair of the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, and awarded it to Jeff Jarret.
May 17, 2002 - "The British Bulldog" Davey Boy Smith died of a heart attack.
May 19, 2004 - Ron Killings won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.

Professional Wrestling Article Stats

The number of stub articles has decreased to its lowest level since the project began its focus on improving them. The goal is to get the number below 600, and we're getting close. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
Professional wrestling articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			2	3	5
	FL		1	5	15	21
	GA		4	15	39	58
	B	1	13	57	203	274
	Start	2	52	221	2331	2606
	Stub		1	23	600	624
	Assessed	3	71	323	3191	3588
	Total	3	71	323	3191	3588

Member News

Based on the members list, there are currently 389 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
Based on the active members list, there are currently 37 members currently active in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
- NOTICE: If you are actively editing and contributing to articles under the scope of WikiProject Professional Wrestling, we suggest you add your name to the list of active members.
On the calendar:
- 19 - Frenchbreadpizza's birthday
- 24 - Unopeneddoor's birthday
- 29 - CJMiller's birthday
- 1 - WWE presents One Night Stand
- 8 - TNA presents Slammiversary

Collaboration of the Week

The article collaboration for May 25 through June 7 is Rick Rude. The Featured article collaboration is Carly Colón. Please help to improve these articles to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia professional wrestling related article. The next articles for collaboration will be chosen on Sunday, June 8.

Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!

Articles for Deletion

Current:
Kept: Africa Wrestling Alliance, Blood sweat and ears, List of Ring of Honor events, The Fingerpoke of Doom.
Redirected:
Deleted: International Wrestling Federation (South Africa), Joseph Carl Bailey, Junior, Independent Pro Wrestling Association, Crash TV, Drew Roode, WWE wins top 10.

From the Editors

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WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter

The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
Issue XIV — June 22, 2008

Project News

SummerSlam (1988) and SummerSlam (2007) have both failed their Featured Article Candidacy's, their review pages can be found here and here, respectively.

List of WWE SmackDown video game titles (link) has been nominated for Featured List status.

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship (link) has been nominated for removal as a Featured List.

Paul London, SummerSlam (2004), Survivor Series (1994), and WWE SmackDown (video game series) are currently Good article candidates.

Backlash (2007) (link), Unforgiven (2006) (link), The Rock (entertainer) (link), One Night Stand (2007) (link), The Great American Bash (2007) (link) and Royal Rumble (2005) (link) have been elevated to Good article status.

Over the Edge (1999) has passed its reassessment and is now a good article! The article's reassessment can be found here.

A pay-per-view event chronology has been added as a feature to the Wrestling event infobox, please assist the project in adding this feature to professional wrestling pay-per-view event articles.

The C-Class rating has been introduced. The rating falls between articles that are more than Start class, but less than B-Class.

The Month in Wrestling History

June 1, 1998 - Junkyard Dog died at the age of forty-five in an automobile accident.
June 2, 2003 - Freddie Blassie died at the age of eighty-five from natural causes.
June 10, 1983 - Harley Race defeated Ric Flair for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.
June 13, 1982- "High Chief" Peter Maivia died of cancer at forty-seven.
June 13, 1993 - Yokozuna defeated Hulk Hogan for the WWF Heavyweight title.
June 19 2002 - AJ Styles became the first TNA X Division Champion.

Professional Wrestling Article Stats

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
Professional wrestling articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			2	3	5
	FL		1	5	15	21
	GA		5	17	42	64
	B	1	13	67	206	287
	C		1	7	36	44
	Start	2	53	211	2312	2578
	Stub		1	24	604	629
	Assessed	3	74	333	3218	3628
	Total	3	74	333	3218	3628

Member News

Based on the members list, there are currently 389 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
On the calendar:
- 8 - TNA presents Slammiversary
- 10 - Chandlerjoeyross's birthday
- 10 - King Gemini's birthday
- 11 - Wweisreal's birthday
- 20 - Umdunno's birthday

Current Events

James Yun was suspended for 30 days for violating WWE's Wellness Policy.

Vince McMahon was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Promax|BDA Conference for "for his remarkable accomplishments and innovations in global marketing, advertising and promotion."

WWE is currently holding "Million Dollar Mania", where they give out prize money totalling $1 million on Raw to viewers watching the show at home.

Collaboration of the Week

The article collaboration for June 22 through July 5 is James Yun. The Featured article collaboration is Candice Michelle . Please help to improve these articles to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia professional wrestling related article. The next articles for collaboration will be chosen on Sunday, July 5.

Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!

Articles for Deletion

Current: Mark Beale.
Kept: Triplemania, Antonio Peña.
Redirected:
Deleted: All Action Wrestling.

From the Editors

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The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter Issue XX — July 6, 2008

Thank you for reading WikiProject Professional Wrestling's 20th Newsletter Edition

Project News

December to Dismember (2006) is currently under Featured Article review (link).

Starrcade (1983) has failed its Featured Article nomination (link).

List of WWE SmackDown video game titles has been elevated to Featured List status (link).

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship has been removed as a Featured List (link).

Faces of Fear (link), Maria Kanellis (link), Paul London (link), Survivor Series (1994) (link), The Mega Bucks (link) and WWE SmackDown (video game series) (link) have been elevated to Good article status.

Backlash (2003), Dark Angel (wrestler), Juggernaut (wrestler), SummerSlam (1988), SummerSlam (2004), and Survivor Series (2004) are currently Good article candidates.

Lockdown (2008) (link) and Survivor Series (2007) (link) are currently under Peer Review.

Category:Vengeance is being discussed at WP:CFD for renaming, it's discussion page can be found here.

The C-Class rating has been introduced. The rating falls between articles that are more than Start-Class, but less than B-Class.

Immediately put into effect, our project has begun use of the List-Class rating. The List-Class rating is for list articles that are of less quality than B-Class articles.

Current Events

At Night of Champions:
- Mark Henry became the new ECW Champion.
- Kofi Kingston won the WWE Intercontinental Championship.
- Cody Rhodes turned on Hardcore Holly to capture the World Tag Team Championship with Ted DiBiase.
On June 30, CM Punk won the World Heavyweight Championship on Raw.
Trevor Murdoch was released from WWE on July 3.

The Month in Wrestling History

June 24, 2001 - Edge defeated Kurt Angle in the finals of the 2001 King of the Ring.
June 26, 1992 - Buddy Rogers died of a stroke at age 71.
June 28, 1999 - Steve Austin defeated The Undertaker for the WWF Heavyweight title.
July 2, 1969 - "Iron" Mike DiBiase died of a heart attack in the ring.
July 3, 2001 - AJ Styles and Jerry Lynn become the first NWA World Tag Team Champions under the ownership of TNA, via winning a tournament final.

Professional Wrestling Article Stats

Our goal is to get the number of Stub-Class articles below 600. The current count is 631. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
Professional wrestling articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			2	3	5
	FL		1	6	14	21
	GA		5	17	45	67
	B	1	14	65	202	282
	C		1	10	44	55
	Start	2	52	211	2310	2575
	Stub		1	24	602	627
	List		1	7	39	46
	Assessed	3	74	335	3223	3639
	Total	3	74	335	3223	3639

Member News

Based on the members list, there are currently 397 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
On the calendar:
- 29 - WWE presents Night of Champions
- 1 - D.M.N.'s birthday
- 7 - Alex Roggio's and The Hybrid's birthdays
- 13 - TNA presents Victory Road

Collaboration of the Week

The article collaborations for July 6 through July 19 are Sean Waltman and The Attitude Era.

Please help to improve these articles to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia professional wrestling related article.

The next articles for collaboration will be chosen on July 20.

Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!

Articles for Deletion

Current: Jack Korpela, List of Ring of Honor events, List of World Wrestling Entertainment championships, Beer Money Inc., and The Badd guys.
Kept:
Redirected/Merged: Mark Beale, and Eric Mastrocola.
Deleted: List of ECW events.

From the Editors

As I'm sure you noticed above, this is the 20th edition of the WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter! It has come a long way since the first issue, and I'm sure it will only improve from here. I'd like to thank everyone reading this for continuing to read the newsletter, biweekly.

I'd like to especially thank those who have helped to get the newsletter to it's 20th edition; The Hybrid, The Chronic, TJ Spyke, Alex Roggio, LAX, ThinkBlue, Nikki311, GaryColemanFan, Gavyn Sykes, D.M.N., Naha, NiciVampireHeart, SRX, Zenlax and, RkOrton.

Also, lastly I'd like to thank Misza13, for sending the newsletter out for us, though his bot. His bot has to be the most important part of the process, because without it, the newsletter would not get sent to project members.

I know that's a long list, but they all deserve recognition for their hard work towards the newsletter. So again, thank you to that list of people, and thank you to all of the newsletter's biweekly readers. If you have an questions, comments, or feedback about the newsletter, remember those links below.

-- iMatthew _T.C.

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The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
Issue XXI — July 20, 2008

Project News

A fact from Porkchop Cash and Armageddon (2006) were featured on the Main Page in the Did you know? column on July 11, 2008 and July 17, 2008, respectively.

December to Dismember (2006) is currently under Featured Article review (link).

WWE No Way Out (link) and 2008 WWE Draft (link) are current Featured List candidates

Backlash (2003) (link), Backlash (2004) (link), Survivor Series (2004) (link), and Unforgiven (2007) (link) have been elevated to Good article status.

Cyber Sunday (2007), Dark Angel (wrestler), Juggernaut (wrestler), Royal Rumble (2007), SummerSlam (1988), SummerSlam (2004), and Vengeance: Night of Champions are currently Good article candidates.

SummerSlam (2003) (link) and Survivor Series (2007) (link) are currently under Peer Review.

Per this edit and the discussion here, date linking is not mandatory in articles. This mainly applies to the project's pay-per-view expanded articles. Please take this regulation in notice and apply it to the project's expanded pay-per view articles.

New parameters have been added to the {{Infobox Wrestling event}} template, for the discussion explaining these parameters, see the discussion here

Current Events

Ashley Massaro was released from WWE on July 9.

Taylor Wilde won the TNA Women's Championship on the July 10 edition of TNA Impact!, defeating Awesome Kong.

This Month in Wrestling History

July 9, 2000 - Booker T defeated Jeff Jarrett for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship.
July 11, 1961 - Gene Kiniski defeated Verne Gagne for the AWA World Heavyweight Championship.
July 12, 1992 - Jimmy Snuka defeated Johnny Hot Body for the ECW Heavyweight Championship.
July 12, 1999 - Hulk Hogan defeated Randy Savage for the WCW World Heavyweight title.
July 16, 2001 - Terry Gordy died of a heart attack at age 40.
July 17, 1988 - Bruiser Brody died in Puerto Rica after being stabbed, aged 42.

Professional Wrestling Article Stats

Our goal is to get the number of Stub-Class articles below 600. The current count is 625. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
Professional wrestling articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			2	3	5
	FL		1	6	14	21
	GA		5	18	51	74
	B	1	14	66	203	284
	C		1	9	56	66
	Start	2	50	202	1734	1988
	Stub		1	23	601	625
	List		2	20	572	594
	Assessed	3	74	346	3234	3657
	Total	3	74	346	3234	3657

Member News

Based on the members list, there are currently 401 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
On the calendar:
7 - Alex Roggio's and The Hybrid's birthdays
13 - TNA presents Victory Road
19 - ProtoWolf's & The Founders Intent's birthday
20 - WWE presents The Great American Bash
22 - Darrenhusted's birthday
27 - Sundogs' birthday
29 - Kris Classic's birthday
31 - Normy's birthday

Collaboration of the Week

The article collaboration for July 20 through August 2 is Chris Jericho. The Featured article collaboration is Torrie Wilson.

Please help to improve these articles to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia professional wrestling related article.

The next articles for collaboration will be chosen on August 3.

Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next week! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!

Articles for Deletion

Current: Taryn Terrell (wrestler), and List of wrestling championships.
Kept:
Redirected/Merged: List of World Wrestling Entertainment championships.
Deleted: Jack Korpela (2), Velocity Championship Wrestling (VCW), List of Ring of Honor events, Marc Loyd, Tna Wrestlers Payroll, TNA INCOME, TNA payroll, Beer Money Inc., The Badd guys, and Cyme Tyme Cenation.

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The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
Issue XXII — August 3, 2008

Project Updates

Featured news
- SummerSlam (2003) (link) is a current Featured Article candidate
- December to Dismember (2006) (link) is currently under Featured Article review.
- WWE No Way Out (link) has been elevated to Featured List status.
- 2008 WWE Draft (link) was not promoted to Featured List status, though it has been renominated as a Featured List candidate, here
- IWGP Tag Team Championship (link) is a current Featured List removal candidate.

Good article news
- Armageddon (2006), Dark Angel (wrestler), Juggernaut (wrestler), and Lockdown (2008) are currently Good article candidates.
- Cyber Sunday (2007) (link), Lipstick and Dynamite, Piss and Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling (link), Royal Rumble (2007) (link), Stacy Carter (link), SummerSlam (1988) (link), The Great American Bash (2004) (link) and Vengeance: Night of Champions (link) have been elevated to Good Article status.
- SummerSlam (2004) (link) failed its Good Article nomination.

Other project news
- Sacrifice (2008) (link) and The Great American Bash (2005) (link) are currently under Peer Review.
- A fact from Lipstick and Dynamite, Piss and Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling (July 20), The Great American Bash (2004) (July 21), C.W. Bergstrom (July 22), Survivor Series (1993) (July 23), The Great American Bash (2005) (July 25), No Mercy (2005) (July 30) and New Year's Revolution (2005) (August 1) were featured on the Main Page in the Did you know? column.
- Hell in a Cell has been proposed to be merged into Professional wrestling match types, the discussion can be found here.
- WWE World Tag Team chamiopship, a current redirect to World Tag Team Championship (WWE) is currently a RfD. It's deletion page can be found here.

This Month in Wrestling History

July 23, 1984 - Wendi Richter defeated The Fabulous Moolah for the WWF Women's Championship.
June 26, 1992 - Buddy Rogers died of a stroke aged 71.
July 27, 1963 - Fritz Von Erich defeated Verne Gagne for the AWA World Heavyweight Championship.
July 27, 2002 - Low-Ki defeated Christopher Daniels, Spanky, and Doug Williams to become the inaugural ROH World Heavyweight Champion.
July 27, 2002 - Eddie Guerrero defeated Chris Benoit in a tournament final to win the reinstated WWE United States Championship.
August 3, 1997 - Bret Hart defeated The Undertaker for the WWF Heavyweight title.

Professional Wrestling Article Stats

Our goal is to get the number of Stub-Class articles below 600. The current count is 625. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
Professional wrestling articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			2	3	5
	FL		1	6	15	22
	GA		5	20	56	81
	B	1	15	67	203	286
	C		1	10	60	71
	Start	2	49	203	1735	1989
	Stub		1	23	601	625
	List		2	20	573	595
	Assessed	3	74	351	3246	3674
	Total	3	74	351	3246	3674

Member News

Based on the members list, there are currently 406 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
On the calendar:
- For the month of July:
  - 1 - D.M.N.'s birthday
  - 7 - Alex Roggio's and The Hybrid's birthdays
  - 13 - TNA presents Victory Road
  - 19 - ProtoWolf's and The Founders Intent's birthday
  - 20 - WWE presents The Great American Bash
  - 22 - Darrenhusted's birthday
  - 27 - Sundogs' birthday
  - 29 - Kris Classic's birthday
  - 31 - Normy's birthday
- For the month of August:
  - 10 - TNA presents Hard Justice
  - 12 - NickSentowski's birthday
  - 16 - Lakers244805's birthday
  - 17 - iMatthew's birthday; WWE presents SummerSlam
  - 18 - Crash Underride's and Wrestlinglover's birthdays
  - 19 - Darren Jowalsen's birthday
  - 22 - HeartBurn Kid's birthday

WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter

The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
Issue XXIII — August 17, 2008

Project Updates

Featured news
- SummerSlam (2003) (link) is a current Featured Article candidate.
- December to Dismember (2006) (link) is currently under Featured Article review.
- 2008 WWE Draft (link). has been elevated to Featured List status.
- IWGP Tag Team Championship (link) is a current Featured List removal candidate.

Good article news
- Armageddon (2006) (link), Bad Blood (2003), Chyna, In Your House 2: The Lumberjacks, Juggernaut (wrestler) (link), Lockdown (2008) (link), No Mercy (2005), SummerSlam (1992) and The Great American Bash (2005) are currently Good article candidates.
- Sarah Stock (link) has been elevated to good article status.

Other project news
- Matt Sydal (link) is currently under Peer Review.
- A fact from SummerSlam (1992)‎, Armageddon (2003), and Bad Blood (2003) were featured on the Main Page in the Did you know? column on August 9, 11, and 14 respectively.
- Hell in a Cell has been proposed to be merged into Professional wrestling match types, the discussion can be found here.
- The guidelines for writing pay-per-view articles has been updated, see here. The new guidelines should be followed in order for an article to be nominated for Good article or Featured article status.
- The project has had a cleanup listing generated here. It details all the article within the project that are tagged as having problems. Please help to fix the problems outlined.

This Month in Wrestling History

August 3, 1997 - Bret Hart defeated The Undertaker for the WWF Heavyweight championship.
August 4, 1997 - Lex Luger defeated Hulk Hogan to win the WCW Heavyweight title.
August 7, 2002 - Ron Killings defeated Ken Shamrock for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.
August 8, 1963 - Verne Gagne defeated Fritz Von Erich for the AWA World Heavyweight Championship.
August 9, 1999 - Jackie Sato died of stomach cancer at age 41.
August 12, 1995 - Brad Armstrong defeated Buddy Landel for the Smokey Mountain Heavyweight Championship.
August 15, 2004 - Randy Orton defeated Chris Benoit to win the World Heavyweight Championship and become the youngest World Champion in WWE history.
August 16, 1992 - The Great Muta defeated Riki Chōshū for the IWGP Heavyweight title.

Professional Wrestling Article Stats

Our goal is to get the number of Stub-Class articles below 600. The current count is 625. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
Professional wrestling articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			2	3	5
	FL		1	7	15	23
	GA		5	20	57	82
	B	1	15	68	203	287
	C		1	10	63	74
	Start	2	49	203	1751	2005
	Stub		1	23	595	619
	List		2	20	573	595
	Assessed	3	74	353	3260	3690
	Total	3	74	353	3260	3690

Member News

Based on the members list, there are currently 414 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
On the calendar:
- For the month of August:
  - 10 - TNA presents Hard Justice
  - 12 - NickSentowski's birthday
  - 16 - Lakers244805's birthday
  - 17 - iMatthew's birthday; WWE presents SummerSlam
  - 18 - Crash Underride's and Wrestlinglover's birthdays
  - 19 - Darren Jowalsen's birthday
  - 22 - HeartBurn Kid's birthday